Open Letter to my 8-Year-Old Little Cousin, Sasha Regarding the Importance of Playing Classical Music and Reading Classical Literature

Ellis Washington | August 8, 2023

About the Author—Professor Ellis Washington, J.D.—I went to Harvard Law School for 1 year (1988-89) with future POTUS Barack Hussein Obama, (b. 1960 – d. 09/29/2019), but I took the opposite path in Life—New World Order, Communism, Treason, Pedophilia, Abortion and Satanic Ritual Abuse vs. Christianity, Conservatism, Protecting the Children, Protecting Life and TRUMPism. I repeatedly refused to take the “Satan OATH” for Careerism and Celebrity which is why I’ve been blacklisted since 1989 – for over 34 years—for my entire legal and academic career, yet I Fight on! Why? To avenge Harvard University’s original 1692 motto—Veritas pro Christo et Ecclesia {= Truth for Christ and the Church}.

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“Since music has so much to do with the molding of character, it is necessary that we teach it to our children.”

~ Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), Greek Philosopher and Polymath

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

~ Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), American Author and Journalist

*N.B.: In Sept. 2022, I previously wrote an essay dedicated to my little cousin, Sasha when she was 7-years-old titled – Little Lord Fauntleroy— Then and Now.

🗣To My Dear Little Cousin – SASHA, 🥰

How are you doing, Cousin Sasha? I hope that you, your mother ShaTanya and Grandmother Deborah are all doing well and are having a very fun summer vacation. Since school will start for you soon, I wrote this letter below just for you because I LOVE you very much and to suggest to your mother to begin your studies playing an instrument and to begin reading some of the Great Books of Classical Literature as part of your education and character development.

Because you are very young right now being 8 years old, I realize that some parts of this letter won’t make much sense to you and will be difficult for you to understand. But as you get older you will begin to understand what I am writing to you in this letter, therefore keep rereading this letter even as you go from elementary school to middle school to high school and college. I hope you like the letter that I am writing to you and feel free to write me back any time you wish.

Why do I suggest that you begin playing Classical music and reading Classical literature? Because my mother did these things for me when I was about your age, and I in turn passed this wisdom and knowledge onto my two children – Cousin Stone and Eden. Therefore, playing Classical music on an instrument and reading Classical Literature in books will really help you to become a very, very SMART 🧠 little girl 👩‍🦱which I hear from your mother that you already ARE very, very SMART

Blessings to you and to all your school friends as you begin the fourth grade and please give this letter to your Teacher, to your Principal and to all of your classmates with my regards 🥳

Love, 🥰

Cousin Ellis Washington

August 8, 2023

A. What are the Benefits of Listen to and Playing Classical Music?

Hello Cousin ShaTanya Johnson—I was thinking and praying about you and Sasha recently and wrote this essay below in part thinking about the proper and complete way to educate your very precocious and intelligent daughter. Like I stated in my essay attached here which is an expansion of my note I sent to your Facebook page about 2 weeks ago, it is very important to educate the WHOLE person, not just intelligence in math and science (Sasha obviously has that!)

*N.B.: See @X (formerly @Twitter) post to read the full article.

ShaTonya, my advice to you as a mother is to let Sasha take up Classical music. I state this not to make your daughter a professional or classically trained musician when she gets older (that vocation is very tough to succeed in based on my own personal experience). But playing Classical music is a door to fully educate the ENTIRE person (not just the S.T.E.M. fields of study [Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine] and to help Sasha to better understand and appreciate the finer or higher things in life like – Art, Aesthetics, Beauty, the Canon of Knowledge, Philosophy, etc. . .

What instrument should Sasha study in school? I suggest the Viola, Cello, or Oboe (avoid flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, saxophone, drums. Why? Because those instruments are rather common and thus very difficult to compete with many other students playing these instruments in the orchestra or band. In other words, flute, clarinet, trumpet, saxophone, drum players aren’t in real demand in the music marketplace as the instruments I suggest above.

ShaTanya, Viola, Cello and Oboe are instruments that are unusual but very important parts of the orchestra and if she becomes proficient in one of those instruments, I know from personal experience in my life that developing that musical skill can open many doors for in her future educational endeavors, including earning scholarship opportunities at elite prep schools, colleges, graduate schools and beyond. . . even if Sasha majors in something other than music in high school and college.

For example, when I was age 15, I switched from playing the flute and started playing the French horn during mt freshman year of high school at Cass Technical. I was fortunate to have had a good foundation because, from the beginning, I had studied with a teacher who actually played French Horn in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (Charlie Weaver). So, every day I practiced very, very hard, and just 4 years later at age 18, I received full scholarships to college, and later to graduate school (University of Michigan) and post-graduate school (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Harvard Law School). In other words, just because I was good at playing the French Horn, and from reading and studying Classical Literature, History and Philosophy I saved between $80-$100,000 in school tuition fees – money I would have had to pay for college and graduate school.

*N.B.: For further reading about this part of my musical, religious, and intellectual development, see my essay written in October 2021 titled – I Remember Chiarina Green (my High School Friend).

What is the Mozart Effect?

Most music historians and classical music professionals would agree that the greatest genius in music history was the Austrian musician and composer – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-91). Who was Mozart and why is listening to his music so important to the brain, cognitive, and intellectual development? Scientists don’t fully know the answer to that question, but from a growing number of scientific investigations and experiments with babies in the womb and even with young children, scientists have discovered a phenomenon they call – The Mozart Effect which babies and young children who are exposed to classical music and listen to it on a regular basis have increased cognitive development or brain power. Sasha, here are a few musical pieces that I suggest you regularly listen to make your mind and your character even stronger than it is now—

Suggested List of Classical Music Compositions Sasha should listen to in order to become familiar with and to understand Classical Music

Mozart, Sonata for 2 Pianos in D Major,
- [*N.B.: This piece is considered to be the most perfect composition that scientifically demonstrated to stimulate spatial brain development of babies in their mother’s womb as well as with young children]
Bach, Well Tempered Clavier, Part I and Part II,
Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor,
Brahms, Symphony No. 3 (3^rd movement),
Britten, The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra
Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf
Albinoni, Concerto for 2 Oboes in D Major
Teleman, Concerto for Viola in G Major
Bach, Suite No. 1 for Solo Cello in G Major
Mozart, Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Viola, Cello(3^rd movement)

Sasha, finally for the first section of this letter to you about the importance of learning to listen to and play Classical music, here are 2 interesting articles that your mother can read parts of to you that discuss the so-called “Mozart Effect” titled—What’s happening in babies brains during music experience and The Mozart Effect: Why you should listen to Classical Music During pregnancy—expressing how important it is to the life-long cognitive development of the baby (and young children like Sasha’s age) to be exposed to classical music—

Auditory cortex: Hearing you sing, baby’s brain processes incoming sound waves.
Visual cortex: Watching you move, baby’s brain processes incoming light waves.
Sensory cortex: Feeling the action of dancing or playing with instruments, baby’s brain processes tactile feedback.
Motor cortex: As your baby moves their arms, legs, tongues, etc. during music, this activates baby’s motor cortex.
Amygdala: Your baby’s emotional response to music lights up the amygdala.
Cerebellum: Your infant’s cerebellum lights up during movement.
Hippocampus: Music enhances the brain’s ability to store memories.
Corpus callosum: Music activates the corpus callosum, which connects and synchronizes the two sides of the brain.

*N.B.: ShaTonya—When Sasha gets older around age 11-15, she should be encouraged to read see my son, Stone Washington’s 2013 article – Letter to Generation Y: Live the Classics. Also, see my 2021 article – 1939—Year One How the Nazis Changed the Universal Electrical Frequency of Salvation to Mind Control the World through Music(2021); Symposium: Art, Music and the Wagnerian dilemma (2010). Although these works are primarily philosophical, they demonstrate the power of playing and studying Classical music and reading Classical Literature as a predicate for intellectual development and Critical Thinking.

Benefits of Reading Classical Literature

Finally, teach Sasha to read and appreciate the Classics of Literature found in books. There are a number of books out there that condense the great works of literature for young children who are Sasha’s age like I did in September 2021, when I wrote that essay for her on the classic children’s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett – “Little Lord Fauntleroy” .

To stimulate and encourage the reading of the Great Classics of Literature, the book I used for my son (your cousin), Stone Washington when he was about age 11 was titled – THE BOOK OF GREAT BOOKS: A GUIDE TO 100 GREAT CLASSICS by Dr. W. John Campbell. (You can get this book on Amazon.com). To prove that my methods to build intellectual abilities of children through listening to Classical music and reading the Classics of Literature work, my son, Stone Washington is currently finishing his Ph.D. degree in Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University (Ranked #10 nationally) and to this day Stone goes to the bookstore to read every Friday evening as I taught him and his younger sister ever since he was a baby, 25 years ago!

Another example that reading the Classics of Literature builds BRAIN POWER, COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT and helps CRITICAL THINKING skills is that my daughter, Eden Washington, (unlike her big brother, Stone) reads only out of necessity, but is also very smart because she demanded that I read to her a lot as a baby and toddler (and I could never trick her by skipping one page!). And, as she grew up, I made her read her favorite books to me and to have discussions about the details and life lesson contained in those books. Right now, Eden has just become a senior in college at Georgia State University and will be going to law school after college next year where she wants to become a Corporate Attorney.

ShaTanya, if you have any questions, always feel free to contact me at any time and as always you and Sasha please feel free to share this info to any your teachers, the principal, parents with school age children who they want to learn Critical Thinking from ages 8 to 108 years old!! In other words, be properly and completely educated with an old school Classical Education that not only lasts all of our lives, but, because of the poor state of the school system in America, my methods are far BEYOND what they teach in most public & private schools today.